SQL Server, What Waits Happened In The Last X Seconds
There are plenty of scripts out there that can show you the waits that are occurring on your server, however,...
2019-02-18
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Atlanta & South Florida 2019
I’ll be in South Florida again this year and will stay over as usual for a couple days of vacation....
2019-02-18
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SQLSaturday Atlanta & South Florida 2019
I’ll be in South Florida again this year and will stay over as usual for a couple days of vacation. I see Brent is attending; I’ll have to make...
2019-02-18
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Upcoming SQLpassion Trainings
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2019-02-18
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Weekly reading #3
New week, new challenges! Great to see you again. We are always here Monday morning! No need to check earlier...
2019-02-18
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Azure Databricks – Introduction (Free Trial)
Microsoft’s Azure Databricks is an advanced Apache Spark platform that brings data and business teams together. In this introductory article,...
2019-02-17
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Azure Databricks – Introduction (Free Trial)
Microsoft’s Azure Databricks is an advanced Apache Spark platform that brings data and business teams together. In this introductory article, we will look at what the use cases for...
2019-02-17
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Last Week Reading (2019-02-17)
Power BI Desktop February 2019 Feature Summary Preview of new Key Influencers visual and much more… The February release of...
2019-02-17
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Notes From the 2nd SQLOrlando Lunch Meetup
I won’t blog all of these we do, but wanted to capture a few thoughts and then revisit later in...
2019-02-17
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Notes From the Feb 7, 2019 Spacecoast Meetup
I drove over to Melbourne on to speak to the group, hadn’t been over in a while. Quick notes:
8 attendees,...
2019-02-17
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Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers